Watch footage of the Sun unleashing an X1.2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare and X1 flare. See time-lapses of the flares in multiple wavelengths. Credit Space.com | footage c ...

The Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Solar Physics have captured footage ...

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known ...

A recent period of strong solar flares is expected to gradually decline over the coming weeks and months, scientists say, along with the potential for brief communication blackouts as the sun’s ...

New study from a researcher at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering could help predict when the next solar flare will occur.

Solar flares are closely related to another solar phenomenon called a coronal mass ejection, or CME. Where there's a flare, there's likely to be a CME, just like where there's smoke there's fire.

'Intense' Solar Flare Will Cause Major Geomagnetic Storms and Aurora Displays, NASA Says Authorities predict that states as far south as Oregon and Illinois will be able to see auroras between now ...

(NEXSTAR) — The largest solar flare recorded since 2017 erupted Thursday morning, marking the latest episode in an active period for the sun. The scale ranges from B-class on the lowest end to C ...

The X9.0 flare takes the crown from the previous strongest flare of Solar Cycle 25, which was an X8.7 flare on May 14.

On Oct. 3, the sun released the most powerful solar flare this solar cycle, a colossal X9.05 eruption — and it's heading for Earth.